Gangster Tales: crooked cops, femmes fatales, and shotgun weddings
Take a trip into the underworld with our new collection of Eastern European gangster films. From folkloric smugglers to crooked cops, femmes fatales to shotgun weddings, these three titles capture the criminal spirit with stylistic flair and hard-nosed energy.
Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s Pamfir (2022) is a Ukrainian thriller shot through with paganistic energy and visual intensity that reimagines the smuggler as a folklore hero. Romanian New Wave icon Corneliu Porumboiu heads for the Canaries in The Whistlers (2019), a postmodern neo-noir concoction that blends absurdism with sharp political bite. And we tip our hat to the classics with Black Cat, White Cat (1998), Emir Kusturica’s madcap ensemble comedy of small-time crime and thwarted romance that plays out to a turbocharged Balkan soundtrack.
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The Whistlers
Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu • 2019 • Romania
Romanian New Wave icon Corneliu Porumboiu heads for the Canaries in this playful, genre-bending crime thriller. Bucharest police captain Cristi (Vlad Ivanov) is caught in a trap of his own making – under investigation by his bosses for his corrupt ...
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Black Cat, White Cat
Directed by Emir Kusturica • 1998 • Serbia
A careening ensemble comedy bursting at the seams with music and visual energy, Black Cat, White Cat is Emir Kusturica’s madcap tribute to the marginalised and dispossessed. The film follows the twisted romances and small-time schemes of a community of ...
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Gangster Tales: crooked cops, femmes fatales, and shotgun weddings.
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